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<h2>Endpoint Management</h2>

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<p>In FedX any federation member is mapped to an <i>Endpoint</i>. The endpoint maintains all
relevant information for a particular endpoint, e.g. how triples can be retrieved from the 
endpoint. Endpoints can be added to the federation at initialization time or at runtime.</p>

<p>In FedX we provide support methods to create <i>Endpoints</i> for SPARQL endpoints and 
Sesame <i>NativeStore</i>s. The methods can be used to create endpoints easily.</p>

<h3>Example: Using the endpoint Manager to create endpoints</h3>

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Config.initialize();
List&lt;Endpoint&gt; endpoints = new ArrayList&lt;Endpoint&gt;();

// initializing a SPARQL endpoint (with explicit name)
endpoints.add( EndpointFactory.loadSPARQLEndpoint("dbpedia", "http://dbpedia.org/sparql"));

// another SPARQL endpoint (name is constructed from url)
endpoints.add( EndpointFactory.loadSPARQLEndpoint("http://api.talis.com/stores/nytimes/services/sparql"));

// load a Sesame NativeStore (path either absolute or relative to Config#getBaseDir)
endpoints.add( EndpointFactory.loadNativeEndpoint("mystory", "path/to/myNativeStore"));

FedXFactory.initializeFederation(endpoints);
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For details about the methods please refer to the javadoc help of the class<i>EndpointFactory</i>


<p><b>Note:</b> With the Endpoint mechanism it is basically possible to support any kind of SAIL implementation as federation member. 
For documentation consider the javadoc, in particular <i>EndpointFactory</i> and  <i>EndpointProvider</i>.</p>

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